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Well, we're back. As usual when I've been gone for a while this update will mostly stick to things that happened today with some pieces I flagged while I was gone in there for good measure. BANANAS If you like bananas, I'm afraid I have some bad news: A wild banana that may hold the … Continue reading Europe/Americas update: July 5 2018

WORLD REFUGEE DAY John Feffer has some thoughts about how the world is treating refugees on World Refugee Day: This week, as the international community marks World Refugee Day, 22.5 million people have fled their countries to seek refuge elsewhere. In 2016, a mere 189,000 were resettled. That’s less than 1 percent. It’s as if … Continue reading Europe/Americas update: June 20 2018

ASIA ARMENIA Armenian authorities on Sunday morning arrested Nikol Pashinian, the opposition politician who has emerged as the leader of the street protests against new Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan's apparently unending hold on power, along with two other protest leaders. While Eurasianet's Joshua Kucera says that the arrests initially seemed to put the protesters into a … Continue reading World update: April 21-22 2018

ASIA ARMENIA The protests against it are ongoing, but former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was nominated to serve as the country's new prime minister on Saturday anyway. The protesters did manage to prevent the momentous nomination from taking place at the ruling Republican Party's headquarters in Yerevan--instead, they had to do the deed at a ski … Continue reading World update: April 14-15 2018

ASIA ARMENIA Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is expected to be named prime minister on Saturday, the culmination of a political transition meant to extend Sargsyan's time in power despite his having been term limited out of the presidency. Over the past several months, Sargsyan has engineered a constitutional change that makes Armenia's premiership more powerful … Continue reading World update: April 13 2018

ASIA AZERBAIJAN Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev should win another seven year term on Wednesday, particularly given that his opposition is boycotting the election. Aliyev, who is amazingly only 56 even though it seems like he's been in power in Azerbaijan since the late Middle Ages (it's been 15 years) is running against seven other candidates … Continue reading World update: April 9 2018

INEQUALITY If you're worried about dying in a climate change-induced future hellscape, I have good news--unchecked inequality might tear us all apart before we can get there: World leaders are being warned that the continued accumulation of wealth at the top will fuel growing distrust and anger over the coming decade unless action is taken … Continue reading Europe/Americas update: April 7-8 2018